Breast Cancer - People Who Are Living With Breast Cancer

Peglove

Loving Wife, Teacher, Life-Long Learner, Traveler of the World

posted 11/12/2009, comments (0)

lumpectomy recovery day 4!

Hello Friends, I am still mending, hurts like hell, and it aint over...so, I am going to continue to blog about the recovery, and radiation, what tamoxifen is like, scars? no scars? but i only have my index finger on my left arm helping me to type right now. so i will write more later. there is serious... Read more Chevron

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Racuh

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Diagnosed with angiosarcoma of the left breast in Jan 2009.

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posted 11/11/2009, comments (4)

I'm a fatty!

I have 4 treatments left in my Taxol torture after yesterdays infusion. Yayyyyyy. I can't even tell you how happy I am to be done with this crap after a year of treatment now. I really hope this is it... that nothing else has to happen to me. My blood counts are getting looooow. My white count is great though, its up at around 5.6 all the... Read more Chevron

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crazytherapist

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posted 11/10/2009, comments (2)

Second Opinion

Just got back form Beth Israel. It was a long appointment and we decided to make a day out of it. We rode the bus to avoid the horrible traffic into the city and that was a great idea. There is a Metro Station just a few blocks away and it was a gorgeous day so walking was very pleasant. I first met with the radiation... Read more Chevron

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Michigoose

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1994 age 34; recurrence 1998 stage IV

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posted 11/05/2009, comments (3)

Trying to Look at things a bit differently, a tool to get through it

Getting through breast cancer is hard. It's scary. I tend to look at things in a little different way than most people do, and I think it helped me and it might just be a tool to add to your arsenal of weapons in this fight as well. After the tears, I sat back and realized that this was just another passage...a new page , or a... Read more Chevron

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Barbara C

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44 years old, metastatic breast cancer

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posted 10/25/2009, comments (4)

Cancer's back and a sneeze broke my back!

I was diagnosed with breast cancer on May 15, 1006 (3:30 pm). After a mastectomy, chemo, radiation and 4 reconstruction surgeries I hoped I was done while realy not believing it. From all the reconstructions, I had persistent chest wall pain and my wonderful oncologist sent me for a bone scan. Everyone involved, except me, was... Read more Chevron

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